Lot #1689: WENCESLAUS HOLLAR - Alexis - Etching with drypoint

 

Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian-English, 1607 - 1677).
Title: "Alexis".
Medium: Etching with drypoint.
Date: Composed 1652. First edition, printed 1654.
Dimensions: Image size: 11 3/4 x 7 13/16 in. (298 x 198 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $100
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $150/200
Lot Note(s): Signed in the plate "W. Hollar fecit". Edition unknown, presumed very small. Tipped at corners to cream laid (18th century?) support sheet. Trimmed to the platemark. Fine impression. Letter-press verso, as called for by Pennington. Literature/catalogue raisonne: PE290I/IV. Provenance: Ex-collection Seymour Hacker, Hacker Art Books, NYC.
Comment(s): No auction records located in the past 25 years. From "Scenes from Virgil.". [24615-3-100-NA]